It’s the first week of NanoWrimo. If you don’t know what that it is, it means National Novel Writing Month. A bunch of CRAZY writers get together, figuratively, and aim to write the month away. If a writer does it the normal way (which I’m not), their minimum number of words for the 30 days […]

Seeing porpoises, orcas, seals, otters, and humpback whales was the highlight of our trip to BC’s Sunshine Coast. We saw humpbacks on three different occasions, but the most spectacular was on the boat ride back from Desolation Sound (see previous weeks’ Sunday Editions!) when our guide gave us the scenic tour and we came upon […]

The waters of Desolation Sound are very sheltered, which results in nearly glassy reflections and utmost peacefulness. The only manmade sounds were the lodge boats coming and going and the generator kicking in in the background. Otherwise, we chatted with the other guests and listened to the calls of loons, ducks, and geese, watched fish […]

After a few days entertaining ourselves along the coast, we caught a water taxi to Homfray Lodge, a 90-minute boat ride up into an area called Desolation Sound. It is aptly named — far from “civilization” for sure! We shared the lodge with an older couple from Denmark, Erica Terpstra and her Dutch film crew […]

Welcome to the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia! My husband and I spent a lovely vacation there in September, so I’ll be sharing some of my photos with you over the next few Sundays. This was a new area for me! Although on the mainland, the Sunshine Coast is only accessible by ferry (or air […]

As we close out September, and my two months of Sunday Edition (it’s just the way it worked with vacation and such as we were divvying it up — I’ve loved having the extra time with y’all!), I figured I’d do another update on my temperature blanket and my knitting project. First up, my temperature […]

Happy official second day of fall! One of the things I love about fall is going to the pumpkin patch and our church fall festival with my family. Inevitably at these things, my youngest is desperate to ride the pony. (There’s always a pony and for the low low price of usually between $6 and […]

Happy Sunday! This past week was a bit of a rollercoaster as the tiny beginnings of fall brought hurricane Florence our way. On Monday, she was headed straight for Virginia (where I live) and while we’re not super near the coast, they were saying we’d be looking at up to 12″ of rain on our […]

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned before that I run the Awana program at our church. (If not, well, I do!) For those who aren’t sure what Awana is, it’s a Bible memory and discipleship program for kids from 2 years old through high school. And it’s fun! Awana comes from 2 Timothy 2:15 and stands […]